we bound our waists and our feet
for your standard of beauty we made ourselves weak
when you killed our baby girls
dude how did you sleep?
let's weep for the widows in India
and the circumcised girls in Africa
to the subjugated
humiliated
to the uneducated, we will rise to the sky
kiss our feet and say goodbye
respect us, adore us, don't put no doubt before us
we made your beds and slept in it
you shed our blood and played with it
This song is for the ladies who died for your sins
who satisfied your appetite while you sit here drinking gin
I'm done with this piece I'm done with this verse ... respect us
History is misery, but it wasn't fair
because men was in charge and women were in despair
men had the power and the women devoured
any work the man in charge assigned her
they didn't have jobs, just left to breed
clean all day didn't care if they bleed
their rights were denied at the rape of Naking
no matter what it seemed like they couldn't win
supposedly have rights but yet couldn't vote
suffering from abuse some even got choked
women were inferior since the beginning of time
saying that we're equal is all just a lie
but it's a new day and now we're both equal
trying to make sure that there is no sequel
to the women in the past who suffered abuse
treating you badly was simply no excuse
branded like cattle
treated like chattel
we had no rights so we had to battle
women were items to rape or revere
the scars were severe
still we persevere
no more tears
Malasia Martain, Eric C, Jasmin Aponte, Fatima De Paz, Sarah Hamilton, Juan C, Nathanial A. additional verse by Gregory Lind
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continuing lab 4...Men & Women
Widows in India
Circumcision of girls in Africa
The Rape of Nanjing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Chang
we bound our waists and our feet
for your standard of beauty we made ourselves weak
when you killed our baby girls
dude how did you sleep?
let's weep for the widows in India
and the circumcised girls in Africa
to the subjugated
humiliated
to the uneducated, we will rise to the sky
kiss our feet and say goodbye
respect us, adore us, don't put no doubt before us
we made your beds and slept in it
you shed our blood and played with it
This song is for the ladies who died for your sins
who satisfied your appetite while you sit here drinking gin
I'm done with this piece I'm done with this verse ... respect us
History is misery, but it wasn't fair
because men was in charge and women were in despair
men had the power and the women devoured
any work the man in charge assigned her
they didn't have jobs, just left to breed
clean all day didn't care if they bleed
their rights were denied at the rape of Naking
no matter what it seemed like they couldn't win
supposedly have rights but yet couldn't vote
suffering from abuse some even got choked
women were inferior since the beginning of time
saying that we're equal is all just a lie
but it's a new day and now we're both equal
trying to make sure that there is no sequel
to the women in the past who suffered abuse
treating you badly was simply no excuse
branded like cattle
treated like chattel
we had no rights so we had to battle
women were items to rape or revere
the scars were severe
still we persevere
no more tears